Caring Together

Caring Together

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The Caring Together Podcast features diverse family caregivers at various stages of their caregiving journeys. Each episode highlights a caregiver’s story, the strategies that worked for them, challenges they faced, and the joys in the journey.

05/05/2020

Episode #11: How we all can support family caregivers

In the final episode of the season, Amy, Jack and Jill discuss many ways that we all can support family caregivers. Hint: Don't add to a caregivers debt!

32 min
05/05/2020

Episode #10: Special Topic - Caregiving and COVID-19

Amy, Jill and Jack discuss the special considerations for caregivers during the global pandemic of COVID-19 and the stay-at-home orders.

35 min
05/05/2020

Episode #9: Forming Your Caregiver Survival Plan

Amy, Jack and Jill discuss the kind of plan that can help keep caregivers afloat. This simple 3-step plan goes a long way to help caregivers stay mentally strong during their caregiving journey.

33 min
04/09/2020

Episode #8: Yes, caregiver burnout is real! (But what can we do about it??)

Amy, Jill, and Jack address head-on the very real issue of caregiver burnout.

35 min
04/09/2020

Episode #7: Caregiver Survival with Jill Gafner Livingston

Season 2 begins in the midst of the Corona virus quarantine. Amy and Jack are joined via Zoom by Jill Gafner Livingston, who is a Certified Dementia Practitioner and Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Trainer through the International/ National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners and has trained 1000s of formal and family caregivers around the world. They discuss the challenges of caregiving during the quarantine on top of all of the stresses that already come with it.

34 min
11/14/2019

Episode 6- Judy Morton Interview

Judy discusses her long caregiving journey as well as her work with supporting hundreds of other caregivers. She has a wealth of knowledge for caregivers and the unique things that come up along the way.

47 min
11/07/2019

Episode 5- Lisa Jacques Interview

Lisa shares about her caregiving journey transitioning her mother into her house and explores the power of journaling. She also opens up about initially not wanting to take on the role but also shares about how much of a gift it has been and how her relationship with her mother has transformed as a result of her caring for her.

39 min
10/31/2019

Episode 4- Shirley Hoskins Interview

Shirley shares about her amazing story of caring for her stroke survivor husband, William, for over 17 years. She shares about some of the many successes that she had, the importance of support group communities and about some of the struggles of a long care giving journey.

54 min
10/25/2019

Episode 3- Becky Carlisle Interview

Millennial caregiver Becky Carlisle shares about her journey caring for her grandmother. She discusses some of the challenges of learning about the medical nature of her grandmother's health issues, balancing a family while caring for her and finding time to recharge.

34 min
10/17/2019

Episode 2- Colleen Beauvais Interview

Hosts Jack and Amy interview caregiver Colleen about her long history with caregiving. They discuss her years working in adult day programs, caring for her sister and most recently caring for her mother while she battles dementia and Alzheimer's disease. They get into the challenges of relocating loved ones, wrestling with feelings of guilt, and changing dynamics of mother-daughter into a caregiving role.

37 min
10/01/2019

Episode 1- Jack Baker Interview

Jack and Amy kick off the first season with Jack's story of how he came to be a caregiver.

36 min

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The Caring Together Podcast features diverse family caregivers at various stages of their caregiving journeys. Each episode highlights a caregiver’s story, the strategies that worked for them, challenges they faced, and the joys in the journey.

Creator

Caring Together
Years Active

2019 - 2020
Episodes

11
Rating

Clean
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